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\ NATIVE FIELD ROACH. j
'"Buiree" «rites:-I am sending under
separate cover some beeile» in a
bottle, and would be elad if noa
could) tell me what they are, end
how to get rid of them. They
Etarted to breed first in. my sauce-
pan cupboard, where I (kept also a
bog "with old papers, for kitchen; vee,
and then they «went from there into
every cupboard in- the house, five ia
all. They hide in the cracks amd
behind things in the cupboard) all
day and come out at night. They
don't eeem. to touch couch ia the
food line, andy I have noticed if I
pot a bât of mashed potato in the
cua>board after a meal they eat
holes in it. I have tried squirting
the cupboards out wu th fiytox, which
kills them if you caa get it oe
them, but if a crack is «missed/ they
will breed up again. They range in
size from about a pirn's head up to
the largest I have sent ia the
bottle, and they seem to breed in
hundreds.
Mr. Newman, Government Entomolo
£st. Mates that the insects are native
ld roaches. In other words, a species
^£ the great- group of insects known a«
4»ckroaches, which are a family of
Í>eet!es- indulging in the Sunday-go-tc
meeting or scientific name of Blnt.ndae.
I mn giving that family name because
Mr. Newman, cannot give it any generic
Bann». ¡He saya that very little is known
about our native cockroaches. The most
(common cockroach, which is a house
liold peat ja Blatta orientalis. This ie
on introduced cockroach found all over
the world and wherever it goes it seems
to drive other roaches away. There is
«notier common introduced roach called
the Cernían roach or eroten bug.
The insect sent is' * native andi it
Éterns strange that it should have be-
come a pest ia the house. MT, Newman
fWe not very successful in answering '
(Tour jfirst question; but a mame would
»ot he of much use in. telling you hew !
4o get rid of them. The best advice
lie can give is to tell you to thoroughly,
dean out the oupboairds, dost the ere- '<
vices with insect powder" or possibly
borax powder. Squiptingi the crevices
with fiytox -will (kill all that it touches,
but the trouble is io get those winch
Slide themselves, successfully.. I think
«mt frequent deaning out and drating
srith powdered borax or insectíbate will
E'jably prove the most effective- remedy,
I would not neglect injecting flytox
the crevices.
Some .time ago I bad to deal with an
iniraMoni of bugs .in the maid's bedroom.
Che allowed them, to get fairly numerous,
.arl we did not discover them, until she
|«£t. I badi to tackle that room, which
*wfcs weathe<rboard, lined nvdth jarrah
tna.tch.ed boards and I absolutely exter
tninated the beasts in one doing, although
ft took me the whole of a Sunday morn-
ing. I took en o rda na ry ISiru syringe,
Sealed up the nozzle ead with solder,
andi carefully bored a smooth bole about
aa thick as a pia This -enabled me to
.end a. jet of kerosene that thickness
.into the «racks «with great force. It
anfifwered ita purpose and if you have
.mehi a erringe end use flytox, lotol,
fonmaliot kerosene, or petrol, I think
noa would get right into the crevices.
X would cantío» you against usiné petrol
because when, it evaporates it forms au,
explosive mixture with air and although
it is a very effective insecticide, it ie-a
little dangerous on that account
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